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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






2. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






3. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






4. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






5. Ability to understand and express spoken language






6. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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7. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






8. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






9. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






10. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






11. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






12. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






13. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






14. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






15. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






16. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






17. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






18. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






19. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






20. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






21. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






22. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






23. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






24. Open syllable






25. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






26. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






27. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






28. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






29. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






30. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






31. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






32. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






33. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






34. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






35. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






36. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






37. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






38. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






39. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






40. State Board of Eduation






41. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






42. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






43. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






44. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






45. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






46. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






47. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






48. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






49. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






50. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.